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Photos: Bonnie Carroll receives Presidential Medal of Freedom

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Updated: May 31, 2016

Published November 24, 2015

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President Barack Obama awards Bonnie Carroll, president of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2015, during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington.

President Barack Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Bonnie Carroll, president of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, on Tuesday in Washington.

Carroll founded Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors after her husband Tom Carroll, commander of the Alaska Army National Guard and lifelong Alaskan, died in a 1992 plane crash in the Chilkat Mountains -- along with seven other top Guard leaders -- en route to Juneau.